Sony Puts A Date On Its Dolby Vision TV Update

From the moment Sony announced at the 2017 CES last January that some of its TVs would be receiving an update to handle the advanced Dolby Vision high dynamic range format, Sony TV owners have been desperate for the update to arrive.

I finally got to see Dolby Vision running (and looking gorgeous) on a Sony A1 OLED TV a couple of weeks ago, and was promised that more information would be revealed before the end of December. And Sony has just lived up to that promise by telling me that the Dolby Vision firmware update will start to roll out to compatible Sony TVs from… mid to late January, 2018.

Dolby Vision is coming to Sony TVs in January.

Photo: John Archer

The update is set to hit the US first, before starting to roll out to sets in Europe at the end of January. Though Sony says it could be well into February before the roll out has been completed.

If you haven’t seen any of my earlier stories on the Sony Dolby Vision update, it will be made available for all Sony TVs that carry the company’s latest X1 Extreme processor. This essentially means that it will arrive on all these models: